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I was one of the accident investigators. NASA knew there were serious problems but launched anyway.
Gen. Chuck Yeager twitter ^
| January 28, 2019
| Gen Chuck Yeager
Posted on 01/28/2019 1:31:02 PM PST by SMGFan
Jan 28, 1985: I was one of the accident investigators. NASA knew there were serious problems but launched anyway. @NASA wanted publicity & the press was leaving after waiting a couple days. Well, they got their publicity. #Challenger #Challengeraccident
TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 1985; challenger; chuckyeager; elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; nasa; richardfeynman; spaceshuttle; spacex; yeager
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To: BenLurkin
What the late Ray
Breen BRIEM referred to as getthereitis.
He was a great radio host. Thanks for the memories.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/13/local/la-me-ray-briem-20121214
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posted on
01/28/2019 6:38:01 PM PST
by
JohnnyP
(Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
To: Equine1952
"Its the money, to hell with the people."
It was not the money it was the politics that made them launch. Thikol engineers that made the boosters advised not to launch due to the temperature at the time of the launch. They knew full well the O Rings would probably not seal properly at the ambient temperatures at the time of launch.
NASA politics killed.
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posted on
01/28/2019 6:43:04 PM PST
by
cpdiii
( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
To: FlipWilson
The astronauts were likely alive all the way down.The investigation showed they were alive.
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01/28/2019 6:52:08 PM PST
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cpdiii
( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
To: Paladin2
My personal comments about the shuttle program is it was idiocy. The useful payload the shuttle could launch into orbit was much smaller than its weight.
The Russians had it right. Big rockets and big payloads with a small reentry vehicle for astronauts. Every pound of the shuttle represented useless weight to orbit.
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posted on
01/28/2019 6:58:25 PM PST
by
cpdiii
( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
To: cpdiii
Holey Cow, you some like some kinda Feynman thinker or somethin’.
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posted on
01/28/2019 7:02:15 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: DiogenesLamp
It was that crazy rubber stuff....
[So temperature dependent]
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posted on
01/28/2019 7:04:49 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: TomServo
We old timers have to stick together.
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posted on
01/28/2019 7:41:31 PM PST
by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: Ingtar
“The offending compound was asbestos, I believe.”
The lack of asbestos in the sealing putty has been blamed by engineers
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posted on
01/28/2019 7:41:35 PM PST
by
Figment
To: TomServo
“since hes dead”
Not yet
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posted on
01/28/2019 7:45:30 PM PST
by
Figment
To: McGruff
I remember that thread. It got kudos in the WSJ I think for being the first report of what had happened.
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posted on
01/28/2019 8:13:44 PM PST
by
Figment
To: cpdiii
My personal comments about the shuttle program is it was idiocy. The useful payload the shuttle could launch into orbit was much smaller than its weight. The Russians had it right. Big rockets and big payloads with a small reentry vehicle for astronauts. Every pound of the shuttle represented useless weight to orbit. That is exactly what that rocket scientist "Bell" said when I read his article in the local paper back in the 1990s.
The wings exerted a side force while it was being lofted aloft. The wings represented dead weight that could have been replaced by greater payload capacity, and so on.
He pointed out dozens of things that were wrong with the very concept of the space shuttle.
I don't remember the guy's full name, but I remember his last name was "Bell", and he formerly worked as a rocket scientist for NASA, and he lived in Hawaii.
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posted on
01/28/2019 9:10:56 PM PST
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: Red Badger
I was at OSAN AFB in S. Korea - having my first cup of coffee as I got ready for work.
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posted on
01/29/2019 3:34:05 AM PST
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
To: KC Burke
lol - Don’t I know it ;-)
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01/29/2019 12:39:15 PM PST
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TomServo
To: BenLurkin
Wha the late Ray Breen referred to as getthereitis Takeoff is optional.
Landing is mandatory.
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01/29/2019 12:42:41 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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